The Bottle Factory Outing
  • Published:
    Aug-1976
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    219
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Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named ''one of the greatest novels of all time'' byThe Observer, this riveting novel which was recently adapted on BBC Radio 4 shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal.

Inspired by author Beryl Bainbridge''s own experiences working at a London wine-factory in the 1970s,The Bottle Factory Outingexamines issues of friendship and consent, making the novel timelier than ever. Readers will be dazzled by this offbeat, haunting yet hilariousGuardianfiction prize-winning novel.

''An outrageously funny and horrifying story'' Graham Greene (Observer)

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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-1976
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451071174
    • ISBN13: 9780451071170
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    • Sep-1994
    • Carroll & Graf
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0786701463
    • ISBN13: 9780786701469
    •  
    • Sep-2010
    • Little, Brown
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0349123713
    • ISBN13: 9780349123714
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    • Feb-2023
    • Little, Brown (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0349145245
    • ISBN13: 9780349145242
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    • Jan-1975
    • George Braziller
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0807607819
    • ISBN13: 9780807607817
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    • Oct-2016
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1504039394
    • ISBN13: 9781504039390
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    • Oct-2016
    • Open Road Media
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Oct-1999
    • Soundings Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1860426581
    • ISBN13: 9781860426582
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    • Jan-2002
    • Soundings Audio Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 184283231X
    • ISBN13: 9781842832318



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